Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn

Taking Liberties by Leontia FlynnFrom one of Ireland's most important poets, a collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis 'The real thing' MICHAEL LONGLEY 'Everyone should be reading her' OBSERVER These poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis. Political upheaval and anxiety, violence and death are all registered in these poems, which ask questions about where independence is balanced

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